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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:33:06 +0100
From:      "Colin Jack" <colin@mainline.co.uk>
To:        "Gus Mueller" <gus@mu.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Mailing Users
Message-ID:  <ABEBLEJCDMCJJBELODOEGEMECHAA.colin@mainline.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20001018082258.A71344@elvis.mu.org>

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That's quite a cool idea - except that my perl skills are VERY limited :-)
...

You aren't aware of anything like this any of the online script libraries
are you?

Colin

-----Original Message-----
From: gus@elvis.mu.org [mailto:gus@elvis.mu.org]On Behalf Of Gus Mueller
Sent: 18 October 2000 14:23
To: Colin Jack
Subject: Re: Mailing Users


You could write a little perl script that looks at /etc/passwd and sends an
emamil for each entry in there.

-gus


Colin Jack (colin@mainline.co.uk) wrote:
> I am a relative newbie to freebsd, so please bear with me.
>
> Is there a way that I can send an email to all users on a server? The idea
> is to warn everyone of downtime for maintenance, but with a couple of
> hundred users .... there HAS to be an easy way :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>
> Colin Jack
> Webmaster - Mainline Internet
> colin@mainline.co.uk
> http://www.mainline.co.uk
>
>
>
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